Chapter 1 "A Day in the Jungle"
Diving behind the big jungle trees, Joanna Dark grinned inwardly. She was having the best fun in her life. To relieve the pressure from their last threat (the Skedar) Daniel Carrington had sent them to a private jungle combat training facility in Brazil and turned it into a paintball joint. Raising her AR34, Joanna let loose another 3 round burst at her "attacker", Velvet Dark. The 'bullets' were actually bullet shaped capsule that were filled with paint. They exploded on impact, sprayed paint on you and indicated a scoring shot. BANG! BANG! BANG! Paint exploded around Joanna's arm as Velvet returned her shots with a few of her own. The tree they had hit now looked like it should have been in a 70s' disco. Most trees did in this violent paintball arena. Thump! Velvet's leg was hit and now had pink paint on it. The professional sniper, Georgiou Ivanisavic, was also here in the jungle. He had past everything that Carrington Institute had thrown at him with full marks. Even Daniel had to admit A+ in every sniping course was pretty damn good. Velvet heard another distant silenced shot a millisecond before the log next to her head was splattered with pink paint. It had become yet another 'disco era' object. But this time both Joanna and Velvet had seen the flash of the Jungle Wolf sniper rifle as it fired the paint capsule. Joanna quickly scaled the sturdy tree she was using as cover and hid up on a branch. Then she attached a scope to her Falcon 2 (silenced) and lined her crosshairs up with where she had seen the flash. A flicker of movement and Georgiou had given away his position. Velvet was also attaching a scope to her Glock 80 (silenced). She dived for another hiding spot and peered through the scope, searching for the devilishly good sniper. Another flicker of movement betrayed his position yet again and without hesitation, Velvet and Jo fired their weapons. "^@*&" Georgiou swore as two splashes of paint hit him one after another. A blue shot (Velvet's choice of colour) hit his right shoulder and a green shot (Joanna's choice of colour) hit him right where his heart was. "Those sisters are @#$%^&* good!" Georgiou admitted to himself. "Why did I get stuck with pink paint? What a girly colour." A large horn signaled the end of a day and the trio met up at their campsite in the isolated Amazon. "So another fun day in the jungle, eh?" Georgiou commented as he compared his jungle combat fatigues to Joanna's and Velvet's. His had only a few blue and green splashes of paint but Velvet's had millions of green and Joanna had millions of blue. "Shut the $#%& up!! Just because you don't have a huge sister-sister rivalry going on between you doesn't mean you're better than me. Or Jo" Velvet quickly snapped back. Jo and Georgiou grinned at each other. They knew Velvet had a very short temper and hated other people thinking they were better than her, especially Georgiou. "Come on," Jo said soothingly "lets set up camp and eat." "Here here!" Georgiou heartily agreed. He always seemed to be hungry. "Hmpf! Rations again. Can't we get pizza as rations or something else that actually tastes good? Velvet complained looking down at the energy bar in her hand. "You could always try ringing Pizza Hut and ask them to deliver pizza to you here in the jungle. It might even have its own little helicopter." Georgiou chuckled at his own joke. "Shut up both of you! Take it out on each other tomorrow." Jo ended the argument between her sister and the sniper. An hour later they were all asleep in their own tents, resting for the next day of paintball action.
Diving behind the big jungle trees, Joanna Dark grinned inwardly. She was having the best fun in her life. To relieve the pressure from their last threat (the Skedar) Daniel Carrington had sent them to a private jungle combat training facility in Brazil and turned it into a paintball joint. Raising her AR34, Joanna let loose another 3 round burst at her "attacker", Velvet Dark. The 'bullets' were actually bullet shaped capsule that were filled with paint. They exploded on impact, sprayed paint on you and indicated a scoring shot. BANG! BANG! BANG! Paint exploded around Joanna's arm as Velvet returned her shots with a few of her own. The tree they had hit now looked like it should have been in a 70s' disco. Most trees did in this violent paintball arena. Thump! Velvet's leg was hit and now had pink paint on it. The professional sniper, Georgiou Ivanisavic, was also here in the jungle. He had past everything that Carrington Institute had thrown at him with full marks. Even Daniel had to admit A+ in every sniping course was pretty damn good. Velvet heard another distant silenced shot a millisecond before the log next to her head was splattered with pink paint. It had become yet another 'disco era' object. But this time both Joanna and Velvet had seen the flash of the Jungle Wolf sniper rifle as it fired the paint capsule. Joanna quickly scaled the sturdy tree she was using as cover and hid up on a branch. Then she attached a scope to her Falcon 2 (silenced) and lined her crosshairs up with where she had seen the flash. A flicker of movement and Georgiou had given away his position. Velvet was also attaching a scope to her Glock 80 (silenced). She dived for another hiding spot and peered through the scope, searching for the devilishly good sniper. Another flicker of movement betrayed his position yet again and without hesitation, Velvet and Jo fired their weapons. "^@*&" Georgiou swore as two splashes of paint hit him one after another. A blue shot (Velvet's choice of colour) hit his right shoulder and a green shot (Joanna's choice of colour) hit him right where his heart was. "Those sisters are @#$%^&* good!" Georgiou admitted to himself. "Why did I get stuck with pink paint? What a girly colour." A large horn signaled the end of a day and the trio met up at their campsite in the isolated Amazon. "So another fun day in the jungle, eh?" Georgiou commented as he compared his jungle combat fatigues to Joanna's and Velvet's. His had only a few blue and green splashes of paint but Velvet's had millions of green and Joanna had millions of blue. "Shut the $#%& up!! Just because you don't have a huge sister-sister rivalry going on between you doesn't mean you're better than me. Or Jo" Velvet quickly snapped back. Jo and Georgiou grinned at each other. They knew Velvet had a very short temper and hated other people thinking they were better than her, especially Georgiou. "Come on," Jo said soothingly "lets set up camp and eat." "Here here!" Georgiou heartily agreed. He always seemed to be hungry. "Hmpf! Rations again. Can't we get pizza as rations or something else that actually tastes good? Velvet complained looking down at the energy bar in her hand. "You could always try ringing Pizza Hut and ask them to deliver pizza to you here in the jungle. It might even have its own little helicopter." Georgiou chuckled at his own joke. "Shut up both of you! Take it out on each other tomorrow." Jo ended the argument between her sister and the sniper. An hour later they were all asleep in their own tents, resting for the next day of paintball action.